Faculty Information:
Courses are available throughout the year and students may start on any Monday during term time for a minimum of two weeks. The syllabus will include the following:
- Reading Skills: Understanding notices and signs that are seen in everyday situations. Reading short authentic texts to understand the structures of the language. Scanning factual materials to pick out key ideas and to disregard unneccessary information quickly. Reading texts of an emotional nature and to understand the key themes and the attitudes of the writer.

- Writing Skills: Giving information, reporting events and describing objects and people. Reacting to situations and expressing feelings of hope, regret, pleasure etc. Being able to write simple sentences in different ways.

- Listening Skills: Understanding and responding to announcements and dialogues. Extracting information from conversations (time, date etc.) and to learning to appreciate the attitudes of the speakers.

- Speaking Skills: Asking and understanding questions whilst making appropriate responses and speaking freely to express emotions and reactions.

- Gramamr Skills:
* modal verbs
* present simple and continuous
* past simple and continuous
* present perfect / past perfect
* future - will, going to and present continuous
* imperatives
* gerunds and infintives
* causative - have/get
* phrasal verbs
* prepositions
* conditionals - zero, 1st and 2nd
* reported speech
* question forms - what why where when how which etc.
* nouns pronouns determiners (a/the)
* adjectives (colour, size, shape nationality etc.)
* comparatives
* adverbs

Other Activities:
These activities include:
- Excursions to London, Cambridge, Brighton and more. These take place on a regular basis during the year.
- Catching up with the latest film releases at the new multi-screen cinema.
- Social evenings including our international food evenings. They are popular with students and teachers alike. Veritable feasts and not to be missed!!!
- As Bury St Edmunds has the second oldest theatre in England, trips to the Theatre Royal to see plays and musicals are a feature of life at the School.
- Every May, the Bury St Edmunds Festival takes place, which means a host of theatrical, musical, artistic and sporting events around the town.
- At Christmas, a formal end-of-year dinner at a local club has become a great annual tradition.
- Informal trips to the pub.

Activities easily available at the local Leisure Centre and around town include:
- ten-pin bowling.
- swimming,
- squash
- volleyball
- weight training
- aerobics
- yoga
- badminton
- tennis

Facility Information:
Homestay

This type of accommodation is a perfect way to learn about the British way of life: food, customs and traditions. It is also the best way to practise your English conversation skills outside of school. Our families come from interesting backgrounds and want to learn about you! Accommodation is personally arranged by the Welfare Officer to ensure that each and every student is made to feel welcome and part of the family. Three good meals are provided each day. You will join the family for breakfast and dinner, but packed lunches are provided for school days. Your will usually have your own room with comfortable bed, wardrobe, cupboards and desk for homework. Most rooms have either a TV or stereo system and it may be possible to share the internet connection as well. Access to a telephone can usually be arranged. The homes are mostly located in Bury St Edmunds town, a short walk from both the school and the shops.

Self-catering

For the more independent student, this choice allows you the freedom to shop and cook for yourself. Self-catering accommodation is still carefully chosen so that the student can live with friendly English people wherever possible. Standards are kept high but the costs are lower. Most of the self-catering accommodation is in walking distance of the town centre.

Notes:
Students can choose from the following:
- 6 hours per week (2 mornings)
- 9 hours per week (3 mornings)
- 12 hours per week (4 mornings)
- 15 hours per week (5 mornings)
- 21 hours per week (5 mornings + 3 afternoons)
- 24 hours per week (5 mornings + 4 afternoons

Accommodation:
- Homestay - £105 per week
- Self-catering - £70 - £85 per week

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